This is different though, because I’m talking about something really important. Not just to me, but to people everywhere who think ideas like “freedom” and “adventure” are more than just words. People who think that it is the duty of a responsible citizenry to resist injustice, and to throw off the shackles of polite society when they reach too far into our world, when they transgress too much.

Tomorrow is the first day of December. If you are someone who lives with the hegemony of social pressure, someone who is compelled to hold knives against your own flesh defying every instinct evolution has given you: NSID is your emancipation. We don’t care if you’re male or female, young or old, unix-hacker bearded or barely able to grow hair, NSID is your chance to stand with friends and get shaggy.

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johnath, I want you to know that your NSID post last year changed my life. I was previously unaware of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

As far as I can tell, Maslow’s theory is sheer nonsense on one level, the level of mere “facts” and “reason”, and yet simultaneously on a much deeper level it is meaningful, true, and powerful. It has become a part of my life. In this it has much in common with NSID and, now that I think of it, the Web.

I just came back so I could forward the link to a friend. It thing commenter #3 is responding to my “humor” in comment #2. It was a joke. There are plenty of things in the world worth getting worked up about, but this isn’t one of them.